Two things happened yesterday that I found fascinating.
First of all, the half time show with the dogs was actually more entertaining than the game. Outside of the Ivey dunk, that was quite possibly the most boring game of all time. However, when you throw in three dogs jumping double dutch, well, you've got yourself a jolly good time on a Monday night. Especially after splitting 4 or 5 pitchers at Harry's!
Something else caught my attention in the second half, something I've never seen in public. It was the rarely seen, but ALWAYS heard anonymous internet troll. 👾👾👾👹
Let me explain.
My brother and I had a few at Harry's, so we were entertaining ourselves with the usual hijinks and tomfoolery once we got to Mackey. Two rows down, and just a seat to our right, we noticed a young man (guessing 30's), feverishly texting on his phone. We didn't take much notice of this until the second half when the texting got more feverish. Imagine, if you will, someone typing so fast, and SO aggressively that the person was literally shaking, almost convulsing. Picture the scene from The Last Jedi where Kylo Ren was telling the AT-AT operators to shoot at Luke Skywalker...
My blood pressure was rising just watching this.
After a while, I realized he was TWEETING. Angrily tweeting. I had to know more.
I have pretty decent vision for a man in his mid-40's, but our whirling dervish tweet monster decided to throw me a bone. He fired off a tweet in ALL CAPS. (capitalized for effect)
I happened to see a few of the words he was tweeting, allowing me to jump on twitter and Boolean search his text yelling, making it obvious who this person was, and thus solving the mystery of Mr. Angry Pants. This is where it got fun...
The twitter account was that of a "fake" celebrity, like CreanyTom or the weird Andrew Luck soldier guy. However, it was aimed at the lowly Chicago Bears. He was basically a twitter troll. However, his tweets would lead someone to believe he was AT the Bears MNF game, and not at Mackey Arena watching the Boilers. There were several instances of him tweeting some play by play or mentioned specific plays in a game he WASN'T EVEN WATCHING!! It was mesmerizing. In the second half alone, I bet he fired off 30+ tweets directed at the Bears game.
So, friends, let this be a lesson to you. When on GBI, or twitter, or any other anonymous internet site, the person trying to get a rise out of you, is probably some moron sitting in a different stadium.
Be safe out there, my fellow knuckleheads. God speed.
First of all, the half time show with the dogs was actually more entertaining than the game. Outside of the Ivey dunk, that was quite possibly the most boring game of all time. However, when you throw in three dogs jumping double dutch, well, you've got yourself a jolly good time on a Monday night. Especially after splitting 4 or 5 pitchers at Harry's!
Something else caught my attention in the second half, something I've never seen in public. It was the rarely seen, but ALWAYS heard anonymous internet troll. 👾👾👾👹
Let me explain.
My brother and I had a few at Harry's, so we were entertaining ourselves with the usual hijinks and tomfoolery once we got to Mackey. Two rows down, and just a seat to our right, we noticed a young man (guessing 30's), feverishly texting on his phone. We didn't take much notice of this until the second half when the texting got more feverish. Imagine, if you will, someone typing so fast, and SO aggressively that the person was literally shaking, almost convulsing. Picture the scene from The Last Jedi where Kylo Ren was telling the AT-AT operators to shoot at Luke Skywalker...
My blood pressure was rising just watching this.
After a while, I realized he was TWEETING. Angrily tweeting. I had to know more.
I have pretty decent vision for a man in his mid-40's, but our whirling dervish tweet monster decided to throw me a bone. He fired off a tweet in ALL CAPS. (capitalized for effect)
I happened to see a few of the words he was tweeting, allowing me to jump on twitter and Boolean search his text yelling, making it obvious who this person was, and thus solving the mystery of Mr. Angry Pants. This is where it got fun...
The twitter account was that of a "fake" celebrity, like CreanyTom or the weird Andrew Luck soldier guy. However, it was aimed at the lowly Chicago Bears. He was basically a twitter troll. However, his tweets would lead someone to believe he was AT the Bears MNF game, and not at Mackey Arena watching the Boilers. There were several instances of him tweeting some play by play or mentioned specific plays in a game he WASN'T EVEN WATCHING!! It was mesmerizing. In the second half alone, I bet he fired off 30+ tweets directed at the Bears game.
So, friends, let this be a lesson to you. When on GBI, or twitter, or any other anonymous internet site, the person trying to get a rise out of you, is probably some moron sitting in a different stadium.
Be safe out there, my fellow knuckleheads. God speed.
